Community: Message List - Will you play against those with high K/Ds?

Re: Will you play against those with high K/Ds?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:10:26 GMT

I like a good challenge . When I see full lobbies of clans or high KDRs, I will play once or twice to see how I do. If the randoms can't hang I'll bail though. Its like taking the GlobeTrotters to a pick-up game.

IMHO seems very unsporting to clan up on pub matches repeatedly. However, when randoms crush a clan in pub match play, its quite fun.

When my old Unreal Tournament '99 clan would go 'pub stomping' we would split up the team to keep it fair, and talk trash each other. Wayyy more fun & challenging. Love to see more of this.

Re: Will you play against those with high K/Ds?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:04:16 GMT

Only if your stuck with a team full of randoms with no mics trying to compete against 6 guys trying to just when... like HC HQ.. you need a full 6 or you will lose. I hate when theres teamates going 1-25 and even worse sometimes and you constantly have to shoot **** down and dont have time for the objective.

Re: Will you play against those with high K/Ds?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:58:37 GMT

I played against the rank 7 guy on Capture the Flag and my team won I got like a 5 K/D and he went negative so I don't care what your stats say.

Re: Will you play against those with high K/Ds?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:56:05 GMT

Great insight. I recently joined a clan and it has made a huge difference for me, not just in terms of stats, but moreso in the flow and play of a match. Communication is such an important part and also enjoyable.

When I play random, I don't check stats often. If I am going solo on MP and the other team is a clan however, I usually back out, at least now I do. Not for any other reason than I don't play enough currently to really be able to handle entire lobbies of frustration.

Side note: My K/D is UP to .51. Horrible, I know. But it was sooo much worse. Anyhow, playing KC on Black Box the other day and a dude on the other team had a huge K/D ratio, 10th prestige. I took him out twice consecutively while patrolling near the construction house and again near the rubble. I hear through the screen "oh, he's just f***ing camping!" Camping where? On two opposing sides of the map? It's always an excuse when someone who is apparently very good at the game gets killed by a lower ranked player. I've heard people rage about the lag when I kill them (despite the fact they are laying prone with their back to me and I'm the one with 1 bar) and I've heard that I'm "soundwhoring", despite the fact I do not own Turtle Beach headgear and usually have a baby monitor humming in the background.

Re: Will you play against those with high K/Ds?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:36:13 GMT

High K/D in this game doesn't always mean anything.

I was playing FFA a couple of hours ago on my lunch break and there were a couple of 2.5 K/D guys in the lobby running their mouths about how good they were and how bad everyone else is and how my K/D is a pittley 1.3.

After a few minutes in the game they were both raging so bad about camper this and Type 95 that, drop shotting is for n00bs and on and on and then the guy dashboarded. So ya I don't let it change how I play that much.

Ya I'm so bad but a 1.30 guy makes a 2.5 guy rage quit.....man I love this game

Re: Will you play against those with high K/Ds?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:48:04 GMT

kill confirmed hah *mistake* that was actually another night, I meant Domination.

Re: Will you play against those with high K/Ds?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:40:26 GMT

I play anyone and talk trash to everyone (except my clan)

we will play anyone for reasons as follows.

Two nights ago I join a game with my clan it was Kill Confirmed.... we weren't ready for a bunch of try hards but the other team was also a clan.

we only had 3-4 of our members to their 6. So you we had 3 randoms ><

they destroyed us and then laughed at us in the lobby score was like 7500 - 3900.

one of their players were top 1200 in the world along with the others being prestige 12 and higher and they were high up on the leaderboards.

Well I put on my tryhard-hat and got an ac-130 within 2 minutes on interchange.

I went something like 30-7 we ended up destroying them 7500-3700.

oh yeah and for the final kill to the best of them i flashed, ran up for teh final knife.

you can imagine how good this feels. Never give up, if anything better players make you a better player.... KDR's are a laughable misguiding statistic.

when someone is a 3.00 it doesn't say that each game they go 300 - 1 and they are crazy and don't camp... more realistically they probably camp or "camp guard" and area and go 11 - 3. to me thats not impressive.

check out their Accolades if they are way up with a bunch of "longest lifes" they just play slow and careful and most likely camp.

KDR's do not scare me. a clan with a plan does. that's why to compete you need a group of players that are not only decent but who create a plan to win and when you lose think of another plan for that situation.

Re: Will you play against those with high K/Ds?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:39:36 GMT

The K/D does not matter.There are a couple of thins to look to determine what the game is going to be like. A- Is the high k/d in a full squad? B- What is the w/l? C- How much timein the game? Someone alone with a high k/d means nothing. But if you are running solo and run into a full squad with good w/l and good k/d's than you can 9 times out of 10 expect to get you ass handed to you. Usually in the form of locking down your spawn and covering locations with call outs as to secure a win for there team.

Re: Will you play against those with high K/Ds?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:32:22 GMT

Neither of those stats are very high. I have a legit friend with a running and gunning 4.23 k/d and a 53 win/loss. He doesn't dashboard, doesn't use assassin or portable radars. Not sure how this kid doesn't get dashboarded on. I get at least 6 losses a day on my record from dashboarding hosts.

Re: Will you play against those with high K/Ds?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:28:13 GMT

High k/d doesn't mean crap except you camp on objective games and don't play with the team, or if you start a game off good you leave when you get killed a few times. Look at their win/loss and most of the time it'll tell you.

Re: Will you play against those with high K/Ds?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:49:33 GMT

It can be hard to tell from K/D anymore with infected people are jacking up their K/D. I do however think its funny to be in a lobby with my clan and you can hear people come in to the lobby and say f-that and back out. I will usually back out of a lobby if I keep getting put on the loosing side over and over when playing solo. It seems like a lot of the time I am the only one coming out positive on my team in that sort of situation.

Re: Will you play against those with high K/Ds?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:48:46 GMT

I love it when people say "look at your k/d kid, you're trash" then proceed to destroy them, then after having destroyed them, they still say "you're trash".

Re: Will you play against those with high K/Ds?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:42:16 GMT

I do not care what a persons k/dr or w/lr is in the game I still play against them and sometimes I even can win against them. Just because they have a high k/dr or a high w/lr does not mean they are a god of cod and can not be beaten by someone with a lower stat. After all stats in this game really do not mean a thing, other then how much time a person invested in to learning how to play. Even with that it does not mean they are great players or unbeatable. Everyone has a good day, and a bad day, and even the best players of the game can loose to low stat players.

Re: Will you play against those with high K/Ds?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:34:28 GMT

I watched about 2 minutes of this. Dont see anything wrong with it. I will say that the lack of maps with any size to them forces people that want to snipe to stay up there. I have teammates that love to snipe and sit there. They are not cheating. They feel they have a tactical advantage being on the higher ground sniping down. Its smart.

Re: Will you play against those with high K/Ds?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:31:08 GMT

Does that get boring? Only being able to play when you have a full team? I play solo quite a bit, I mostly play with 2-3 players on a team. I still hold above a 10 win loss. Sometimes you just gotta put K/D to the side and play the objective smarter and harder than anyone on the opposition despite your teammates.

Re: Will you play against those with high K/Ds?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:28:05 GMT

High K/D dont usually bother me. Unless Im stuck with

bunch of lobby leader board noobs. Im already a marginal

player and why play a stacked deck.

Only ones I back out instantly are the ones on my Dont play

list.

The consist of groups that either spawn Camp or Tac and Tube.

Re: Will you play against those with high K/Ds?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:17:44 GMT

I do love when people bitchquit of the lobby because of my 3.19 K/D and 14.44 W/L. Sure, it sucks when we can't find games, but it's funny as hell when people puss out before the game even starts.

Re: Will you play against those with high K/Ds?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:06:33 GMT

I never look at anyone's stats when I'm playing... I join a lobby, start a game, and try to shoot anyone that has a red nametag over their head before they shoot me... simples

Re: Will you play against those with high K/Ds?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:00:24 GMT

Whats high?

Re: Will you play against those with high K/Ds?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:55:36 GMT

Never backed out of a match because of stats and never would, they don't mean a whole lot really, it can be annoying (and funny) when the, as vims says, "......disconnected by transmission error" appears on the screen as you know you've upset someone by making the match not go as they planned, (Or....messing with their K/D) which happens a lot some nights as whilst one or two players do shine in our team, in general we all have 'average' K/D's so looking at the Leaderboards doesn't tell the whole story, as my K/D is one of the lowest........though I have a W/L of 2.5+, although some of the players I know have a 2+ K/D because they play a lot of FFA but don't do so well in objective games due to the math of it all.

We sometimes used to use 'Clan' (I use that term lightly, as we use the Gaming Forum intials as it) tags but found people backed out more when they saw 6 people in the party, I can see why but we don't mind it, in fact it can make for a better game if you do fall into a lobby with another 'Clan', not always of course, as we've played teams who don't even cap their own spawn flag....then you're just waiting to see how long the "......disconnected by transmission error" will appear....

I do play solo sometimes (Mainly Dom) but mostly with friends and have had a few good nights with randoms who luckily played the game but not always the case as you know you're in trouble when you cap 'B' and turn around to find you're on your own....and hear the stampede of the other team....

"I do/would, I don't tend to stay in lobbies with clans since I play alone, I now my team obviously won't win."

Whilst it can be a chore, it's not always the case, but I know what you mean and can be off putting, (see above) but I've dropped into games mid session before and been losing against 'teams' in Dom, but pulled it back on the odd occassion.